- Title
- Feasibility of implementing oral health guidelines in residential care settings: views of nursing staff and residential care workers
- Creator
- Hilton, Shaylee; Sheppard, Justine Joan; Hemsley, Bronwyn A.
- Relation
- NHMRC
- Relation
- Applied Nursing Research Vol. 30, Issue May 2016, p. 194-203
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnr.2015.10.005
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Purpose: To determine the views of nurses and on the feasibility of implementing current evidence-based guidelines for oral care, examining barriers and facilitators to implementation. Results: This mixed-methods study involved an online survey of 35 nurses and residential care workers, verified and expanded upon by one focus group of six residential care workers. Results reflected that nurses and residential care workers (a) have little or no training in recommended oral care techniques, and (b) lack access to the equipment and professional supports needed to provide adequate oral care. Basic oral care might be performed less than once per day in some settings and patients with problematic behaviours, dysphagia, or sensitivities associated with poor oral health might be less likely to receive oral care. While lack of time was highlighted as a barrier in the survey findings, focus group members considered that time should not be a barrier to prioritising oral care practices on a daily basis in residential care settings. Conclusion: There are several important discrepancies between the recommendations made in evidence-based guidelines for oral care and the implementation of such practices in residential care settings. Nursing and residential care staff considered adequate oral care to be feasible if access, funding and training barriers are removed and facilitators enhanced.
- Subject
- oral health; oral care; nursing; nursing assistants; long term residential care
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1320045
- Identifier
- uon:24046
- Identifier
- ISSN:0897-1897
- Rights
- This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Applied Nursing Research. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Applied Nursing Research, Vol. 30, Issue May 2016, DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2015.10.005
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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